This week on the podcast, we welcome guest Megan O’Keefe to talk about KRM and Kubernetes with your hosts Mark Mirchandani and Anthony Bushong. To start the show, Megan gives us a quick rundown of Kubernetes, an open-source tool to orchestrate containers and manage other GCP resources. She explains the difference between declarative and imperative to help us better understand the basics of Kubernetes.

We tackle the challenges people face when beginning their Kubernetes journey and how it works with other open-source projects, like Anthos. This year, Megan and her team have been working to help developers understand the Kubernetes Resource Model, a concept that helps define how companies can organize and run clusters, enforce policies, and more for improved standardization across multiple teams.

Megan explains GitOps, a deployment model for Kubernetes focusing on Git, and takes us through examples of implementation. We learn about Config Sync and how it helps with optimizing and automating GitOps. Megan goes over some other valuable tools, including Open Policy Agent and Gatekeeper, which help developers specify not just which resources are allowed, but also what kinds of things are allowed within each resource.

We wrap up the show with a discussion on streamlining the development process with strategic use of Kubernetes and the help of open-source tools like Skaffold. Megan also talks about controllers like Config Connector that help with deploying to a GCP project and the things she finds most exciting about this space.

Megan O’Keefe

Megan O’Keefe is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google Cloud, helping developers build platforms with Kubernetes and Anthos.

Cool things of the week


Listen up! Google Cloud Reader reaches 50 episodes blog
Private Pools Overview docs


Interview


Kubernetes site
GKE site
KRM site
KRM Tutorial Demos site
Build a platform with KRM: Part 1 - What’s in a platform? blog
Build a platform with KRM: Part 2 - How the Kubernetes resource model works blog
Build a platform with KRM: Part 3 - Simplifying Kubernetes app development blog
Build a platform with KRM: Part 4 - Administering a multi-cluster environment blog
Build a platform with KRM: Part 5 - Manage hosted resources from Kubernetes blog
I do declare! Infrastructure automation with Configuration as Data blog
Multi-cluster Use Cases docs
CNCF Kubernetes Overview site
Anthos site
Anthos Technical Overview docs
Anthos Config Management site
Config Sync Overview docs
Guide To GitOps site
Policy Controller Overview docs
Kustomize site
Cloud Code site
Config Connector Overview docs
Crossplane site
Skaffold site
Open Policy Agent site
Backstage site


What’s something cool you’re working on?

Anthony shared info about GKE on the podcast last week and he’s been working on his video series on GKE cost optimization. The solutions guide and white paper are great resources for this topic.